Thirty-six years ago the world watched The Buggles’ perform Video Killed the Radio Star on MTV’s first ever music video broadcast. Four years later the channel promoted another Eighties band - Dire Straits - who sang how in return for MTV selling advertising items lik...

Walkers Crisps (a PepsiCo brand) scored an own-goal this week when it invited people to tweet selfies via #WalkersWave to be incorporated into a personalised video promoting as getting the chance to win tickets to the UEFA Champions League final.

Forty years ago, Denis Norden a much-loved British presenter, first introduced what would eventually become a long-running annual staple of UK light entertainment TV: ‘It Will be Alright on the Night.’ The programme celebrated unplanned bloopers - often involving cel...